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Played in a rapid game at the Marshall chess club yesterday. Sometimes I can play a good game and actually not mess it up. Obviously by allowing the fork Black made a mistake, but I didn't...that's chess. I've had many games against 2200+ rated pe... | Read More
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Just felt like I needed to post this...2012 has sucked for me so far on many fronts, and generally my chess performance is badly influenced by the non-chess stuff....so all my games in January were horrible. But this one from Feb 1st played in the... | Read More
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This just in from today's game in the Manhattan Open- White, GM Kacheishvili of Georgia, had a clear win in his last move, he should have played 49.b7, but for reasons known only to himself, chose 49.f4 ??? and Black must have felt like he had jus... | Read More
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So this is what I do after playing blitz all night- come home at 1AM, turn the computer on and play slow games with people in Europe, who are already awake. Maybe I should drink more while playing blitz so I would be going straight to bed. Anyway,... | Read More
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Cute little move from today's game Czarnota- Staniszewski played at Najdorf Memorial.
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The title of this post could as well be "making decisions in the rapid game" or, more vaguely "missing out on the best moves (again)". It's inspired by the short middlegame sequence which occurred in my game yesterday at the Marshall Chess Club ra... | Read More
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I have just been looking at random games played in the last week (it's my new habit- download them from TWIC every week and look at them) and I came across this one, played at Bosna Open a week ago. Black, a 2433 player, chose to play a Philidor D... | Read More
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Yesterday I went to the Marshall Chess Club for their G30 (actually this is 25min with 5sec delay) tournament, which they always have on Thursdays and I started to play in these once a month this year. They run them in the Swiss system, which mean... | Read More
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Stupid cops. 7 people were arrested for playing chess, can you believe???
http://gothamist.com/2010/11/17/nypd_cracking_down_on_rogue_chess_p.php | Read More
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Ok all of you endgame experts, please tell me how white wins here...played earlier today at Tal Memorial, Gelfand resigned in this position...what's the winning procedure for Wang Hao ? Black was to move and resigned...
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